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ACLU: Expert reports about Nebraska prisons 'quite scathing'
The Hastings Tribune reported on the role of Craig Haney, distinguished professor of psychology, in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the Nebraska Department of Corrections alleging that conditions and crowding endanger the health and safety of prisoners every day.
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Astrophysicist joins race for Greens in Burnaby North-Seymour
Doctoral candidate Amita Kushner was featured in a Vancouver Sun story about her candidacy for MP in Canada's upcoming federal election.
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UC Santa Cruz to offer 'Serious Games' degree in fall 2019
Computational media faculty Michael John, Sri Kurniawan, and Jim Whitehead were quoted in stories from SF Gate and other media outlets about the new master's degree program in serious games.
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How one of America's harshest isolation units was exposed from the inside
NBC News covered Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney's key role in a settlement that led to the curtailment of solitary confinement in the state of Georgia.
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What Does ‘Skoliosexual’ Mean?
Psychology Professor Phil Hammack was featured in a Women's Health article about the meaning of "skoliosexual," which describes people who are attracted to those who identify as nonbinary or don't identify as cisgender.
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Companies use your data to make money. California thinks you should get paid
CNN Business tapped Chris Benner, professor of sociology and environmental studies, for insight into "data dividends," which Gov. Gavin Newsom mentioned in his State of the State address.
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Months locked in a tiny box — how solitary confinement can erode mental health
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney was featured in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's recent coverage of the mental health impacts of solitary confinement.
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Author Micah Perks on 'True Love'
The Santa Cruz Good Times featured a review of literature professor Micah Perks's new book of short stories, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape.
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Can Jewish Customs Be Crowd-Sourced?
The Times of Israel ran a story about The Minhag Project: A Digital Archive of Hasidic Customs, created by history professor Nathaniel Deutsch, noting it “is being developed as a crowd-sourced online research project of the innovative Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at the University of California Santa Cruz."
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Nion McEvoy receives inaugural Di Rosa Award at Napa art center
The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about alumnus and philanthropist Nion McEvoy being honored at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, noting that "as an English major at UC Santa Cruz, McEvoy befriended painters, poets and musicians."